On the lighter side...

Tyler Cowen tells you everything you know about France is wrong, at least all the political stuff.

There is a crazy explosion of new M&M flavors. They seem to packing a lot into a small candy, for example :Eat, Drink & Be Cherry: White chocolate, milk chocolate, black cherry flavored candy shell. The rest are similar.

Here is something fun. An eco-disaster novel in which a Gaia like entity rebels against our pollutin' ways and blows shit up (happily it is availble here in the U S of A). It reminds me of an underappreciated ecosystem out of balance thriller called Dust. Hell is definately in the handbasket in that one.